The Black Arts Movement was the name given to a group of politically motivated black poets, artists, dramatists, musicians, and writers who emerged in the wake of the Black Power Movement. The poet Imamu Amiri Baraka is widely considered to be the father of the Black Arts Movement, which began in 1965 and ended in 1975. Click to learn more.

Below is a recording of Gwendolyn Brooks and Leroi Jones, (as he then was) reading their poetry in 1965